Loot and Plunder

Throughout the game, you're going to be looking for weapons, cash, gear, and supplies. Learn to spot the different kinds of places loot can be found, and know what each contains.

Anything with a green light (or Skag piles with a greenish glow) can be searched for items, and all will contain at least something. There are two types of small cashboxes and both of these will only contain money. Other places like mailboxes, toilets, and washing machines can contain cash, ammo, or sometimes a health item, but never equipment.

Lockers may contain cash or ammo, but also sometimes have pistols, shields, or class mods. Skag piles can contain all sorts of loot, but it tends to be of fairly low quality.

Chests are the best guaranteed payoff. Ammo chests contain six ammo pickups of various types. Silver chests contain two weapons each, of moderate quality. Red Chests are the most desirable of all, with guaranteed ammo (eight units), and one to four pieces of gear, including weapons, shields, and class mods. Items in a red chest tend to be of higher quality than those found elsewhere.

All of these places can be looted every time you load a game, so it's possible to exit and reload and raid a chest all over again. However, the loot found in some of these locations may be biased toward a certain type of gear, such as shields, rocket launchers, or pistols, so if you're looking for something in particular, this can be useful.

The last place to find loot is, of course, from the bodies of your foes. Higher powered enemies drop better loot, but the type of loot is also influenced by the enemy type. For example, bandits tend to drop weapons, whereas Crimson Lance soldiers drop very high quality shields. If you play co-op, you'll fight higher level enemies with better gear.